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Henry Keyes

Birth
Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
1756 (aged 57–58)
Boylston, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Boylston, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
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No gravestone found in surveys of 1944 and 2010; there is no death record for his wife but she does have a gravestone with space between it and her daughter.

The son of Solomon and Mary Keyes, he was born January 23, 1698/99 in Chelmsford. He married Ruth Moore in May, 1727, in Chelmsford, and they were blessed with 9 children. He acquired lot #45 from his kinsman, Thomas Keyes in about 1729, and settled here in that same year. He was a cooper by trade, and served in the French and Indian War, taking part in the Battle of Lake George on Sept. 8, 1755. He died soon after arriving home in 1756. His land was located off Bennett Lane, now an abandoned roadway.
- History of Boylston 1641-1742 -- A Critical Edition of the Papers of George L. Wright by William O. Dupuis.
No gravestone found in surveys of 1944 and 2010; there is no death record for his wife but she does have a gravestone with space between it and her daughter.

The son of Solomon and Mary Keyes, he was born January 23, 1698/99 in Chelmsford. He married Ruth Moore in May, 1727, in Chelmsford, and they were blessed with 9 children. He acquired lot #45 from his kinsman, Thomas Keyes in about 1729, and settled here in that same year. He was a cooper by trade, and served in the French and Indian War, taking part in the Battle of Lake George on Sept. 8, 1755. He died soon after arriving home in 1756. His land was located off Bennett Lane, now an abandoned roadway.
- History of Boylston 1641-1742 -- A Critical Edition of the Papers of George L. Wright by William O. Dupuis.


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